UI design and confirmation paradigm@MPelletier: clicking on a button is much faster than looking for it, even if you have to click it ten times a day for a month. If the superfluous step was longer or more complicated, I'd remove it, though.

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UI design and confirmation paradigm@Thomas: the question specifically stated we weren't talking about a widely used app ("Granted that if Microsoft brought it out with say Windows-8 (fat chance, I know), people would get used to it eventually"). You can change users' habits when you build the software they will use everyday, otherwise it will annoy them.